Do plumbers make more in Akron or Toledo?

Toledo pays more: the median is $63,450 in Akron and $66,920 in Toledo, a 5% difference.

Plumber salary in Akron, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Akron, OH area earn a median of $63,450 a year, or $30.50 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $99,710 a year. Across all of Ohio, the median is $63,330, so Akron pays about the same as the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$63,450

Bottom 10% under$44,780Top 10% over$99,710

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.53/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,070
After cost of living: $67,960
Median hourly pay: $30.50/hr
vs U.S. median: −1%
vs Ohio median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $69,090 a year · $33.22 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 10420, Akron, OH). Excludes self-employed plumbers. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What plumbers in Akron, OH earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$21.53	$44,780
25th percentile	$23.56	$49,000
Median (50th)	$30.50	$63,450
75th percentile	$39.73	$82,640
90th percentile	$47.94	$99,710

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Akron, OH compares

Akron ranks 6th of 15 Ohio metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers are more concentrated in the Akron area than nationally: 3.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Akron or Toledo?: Toledo pays more: the median is $63,450 in Akron and $66,920 in Toledo, a 5% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2152 (Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters), area code 10420 (Akron, OH). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed plumbers and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (93.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures